Claire has worked on countless projects for www.selfpublishbooks.ie which involves the design of book covers, formatting of the book text and recently, the creation of eBooks. Every client has remarked on not only her talent, but on her patience, kindness and work ethic.
Whether I give her a specific graphic design job description, or ask her to use her imagination and come up with unique ideas, she always leaves our authors happy and proud of their work.

Claire understood straightaway my vision for the design of my children’s picture book.
Her attention to detail and her creativity brought the illustrations and text together exactly how I had imagined. She was very professional and a pleasure to work with and super patient with a first time author!
Anne Printer
Claire understood straightaway my vision for the design of my children’s picture book.
Her attention to detail and her creativity brought the illustrations and text together exactly how I had imagined. She was very professional and a pleasure to work with and super patient with a first time author!

Claire designed the covers for my two books, From Dirt and Dips to Dryrobes and Champagne Cocktails and Crêpes Suzettes. Claire is a dream designer to work with and listens carefully to the brief and takes in every detail. She is reliable and prompt to respond to feedback. She is not afraid to experiment and offer constructive criticism. Claire’s final designs have always exceeded my expectations and I have no hesitation in recommending her.

Designing the book cover is always an exciting element of the process as it means you are on the edge of publication. I have used O’Donovan Design for all my covers. Claire has always been thoroughly helpful and professional. She is so intuitive and always astounds me with how she can transpose an image from my mind’s eye onto the cover. Readers regularly comment on how much they like my covers. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

Claire designed a book cover for my debut novel A Thread of Secrets. She understood my request straightaway after a brief chat. I was so happy with the result that we continued working together on other promotional materials for my book e.g. bookmarks, thank you cards, labels, presentation folder, social media banners etc. She is very responsive, attentive and flexible and so easy to work with. I would come back to Claire without hesitation. She is an amazing designer.

Claire O’Donovan, graphic designer and illustrator of odonovandesign.com has designed creative image content for Waterford Youth Arts for many years. Waterford Youth Arts’ design requirements include print media advertising, brochure design, theatre programme design, original poster and flyer design, DVD wrap and on body labelling design, book publishing and company brand imaging and letterhead. Claire offers a personal and highly prompt service to her clients. Claire is an illustrator by passion and takes this to her work in her original designs. Waterford Youth Arts looks forward to continuing to collaborate with Claire O’ Donovan as our designer of choice and can fully endorse her work.

Claire has worked for the Imagine Arts Festival, Waterford as a Graphic Designer for many years. She provides an excellent service, has great ideas and is receptive to any ideas put forward
by members of the Committee. She has infinite patience with the demands of a voluntary committee. She has created many wonderful designs for the festival, and in 2014 the festival won best overall poster at the AOIFE (Association of Irish Festival Events) Marketing Awards Ceremony in 2014. The festival is extremely fortunate to have someone like Claire, who is so in tune with the needs of the festival.

Starting with no experience of book publishing, I needed assistance with our first book we put together for the Pfizerphonics choirs,10th anniversary. Thanks to Lettertec, we were given Claires details. Claire helped us with every aspect of the book. The layout and formatting of the pages, the artwork. We had many revisions and Claire was always helpful and of great assistance. From the first introduction, I could see her creative design talents were very apparent. We put together a beautiful book, that everyone was proud of. Me included. Thank you Claire for your patience and assisting us every step of the way, even with a tight deadline. I would have no hesitation recommending Claire for book publishing work.